Why bought: Good reviews. Sounded good. Was going to buy it but borrowed
it from ÖB and B-IS.

Seen: March 29, 2013

Any movie that pokes fun of
Nazism, racism, sexism, patriotism, imperialism and war should be good.

This movie does it all. But
isn’t.

The story: In 1945 the Nazis
fled to the moon and on its dark side built up a new society under a new fuehrer.
A black American astronaut shows up. The
Nazis attack. The US president, a woman,
appoints her fashion designer, a woman, as war minister. War breaks out. Black
astronaut and white Nazi schoolteacher fall in love (she learns the error of
her ways). Lots of people get killed. A big chunk of the moon is blasted out of
existence. The end.

Is it a comedy? Yes, but
only slightly funny. A satire? Yes, but
never quite on target. Sci-fi? Oh yes, lots of space ships and things. I slept through the battles.

Maybe I just don’t get
Finnish humor. The movie was a conglomeration effort of film makers, financiers
and actors from Finland, Sweden, and all kinds of other strange places. I
really wanted to like it.

It gets one point for the
concept and one point for the effort (and I can be a little patriotic at times
when Sweden is involved) =